The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck… — Herodotus
The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
In the original Greek
ὁ δὲ βουλευσάμενος αἰσχρῶς, εἴ οἱ ἡ τύχη ἐπίσποιτο, εὕρημα εὕρηκε, ἧσσον δὲ οὐδέν οἱ κακῶς βεβούλευται.’
Histories · 430 BC
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Herodotus. The Histories, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 7, sect. 10.
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Herodotus. Ἱστορίαι [Histories]. c. 430 BC, bk. 7, sect. 10.